Space Launch Vehicles

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Here are some space launch vehicles (although one is fictional).  Two of these drawings (N1 and Vostok) are available in my books, which you can look at on my commercial Saturn Press site. 

These drawings were converted from my original MacDraw documents into 72 pixel-per-inch gif images.  Windows machines may print them at 75 pixels per inch--4% smaller than the scales indicate.

"STA" numbers refer to distance from nose tip, tail end, or some other reference point along the rocket.

SA5missile.gif (12309 bytes) The symbol that looks like an O with a line through it means diameter.

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Athena Friede N1 Project Pilot
Vostok

 

Athena

Originally the Lockheed Launch Vehicle (LLV), then the Lockheed-Martin Launch Vehicle (LMLV), and now the Athena, this is one of the new wave of 1990's solid-fueled satellite launchers.

Dimensioned drawing

Lockheed Martin page with color photos.

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This isn't a real rocket--it comes from Fritz Lang's silent science fiction movie "Frau im Mond."   But spaceflight pioneer Hermann Oberth designed it.

Dimensioned and color drawing

Photo from movie.

Another photo.

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N1

The Soviet N1 was supposed to carry two cosmonauts to the Moon.  Four flew, and all four crashed.

Dimensioned and color-keyed drawing

B&W photo

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Project Pilot was a secret program to send a satellite into orbit aboard an aircraft-launched rocket

Dimensioned and color drawing

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Vostok

This rocket launched Yuri Gagarin, the first human to orbit the Earth, in 1961.

Dimensioned and color drawing

Go to the plan page for model plans.

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